Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged for a legal representative of his Committee to appear beside Western Union as "a friend of the court." On the Senate floor he cried: "In my judgment, if any judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the delivery of papers summoned by this body, the Congress should immediately enact legislation taking away that jurisdiction from the courts, for Congress creates the jurisdiction of those courts. If I had any idea that any judge would issue an injunction against this body getting certain evidence, I would long ago have introduced a bill taking away the power...
...Whereas the Harvard Student Council feels that the spirit behind the enact- ment of the Teachers Oath Bill is prejudicial to the principles of Freedom of speech in education, provisions of the statute to the contrary not-with-standing...
...same shall be made good again by all Students resident in the Colledge at the Time when such dammages shall be done or discovered to be done & shall be duly paid in their Quarter Bills to the Steward of the Colledge. . . ." It was found necessary to re-enact this...
...minority decision, highly critical of his colleagues' majority opinion: "The power of courts to declare a statute unconstitutional is subject to two guiding principles of decision which ought never to be absent from judicial consciousness. One is that courts are concerned only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom. The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from...
...opinion makes the primary point of warning the court that it is concerned "Only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom," and, what is as arrogant as it is redundant, that the justices must never fail to exercise self-restraint. It is hard to believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that...